Context | The urban articulation project DIS/LOCATION derives its title from a diverging and complementary stance, welded together with a forward slash. This unconventional assemblage keeps ambivalent keeps well alive the ambivalent meanings, without cancelling them out. Like a hinge, this pivot point ensures flexibility and plays through a balancing act, swinging scope and reach dramatically to convene with ideas that could otherwise not collide. Thus, through this play, notions related to movement, nomadism, drift and loss of landmarks intersect those connected to anchoring, immobility, positioning and linked to place and context.

Since 2004, DIS/LOCATION has increased the quantity of artistic interventions in public space, which operate under the banner of furtive art, invisibility, and the promotion and exploration of marginalized contexts. For the coming year, we wish to encourage projects that rally and assemble and which question the collective sense of community by relying on the organization of gatherings and participatory activities as its modus operandi.

Here are the components of the programming that will be activated depending on the year and the programming committee wishes :

FIELD 1 - INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE

DARE-DARE offers :

- an honorarium

- author's rights

- reimbursement for project materials

- project publicity

- help securing necessary authorizations and permits

Support material:

- 300 words artist statement

- 200 words on intended project direction (possible work direction, context as well as the form(s) that the work may take)

- brief description of foreseeable technical needs

- CV

- 15 images + access to web site (if desired)

FIELD 3 - PUBLIC WRITINGS

DARE-DARE forges ahead with its urban poetry/writing project. Borrowing from short form sentence structure such as slogans, haikus or tweets, these short phrases, aphorisms, onomatopoeias, poems or questions are showcased for a week's time on an illuminated sign. The texts are visible, day and night, for the thousands of passers-by that transit through the area surrounding the artist-run centre's mobile trailer.

The selection committee reserves the right to choose four to ten sentences of the proposed compositions, in order to showcase one sentence a week, for a period of four to ten weeks.

Send us your short phrases proposals (Note that these must be a maximum of 15 words for a total of 105 characters including spaces, all on five lines of 21 characters each).